| 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Aim |
Improving natural gas security of supply |
Improving natural gas security of supply by reforming national energy policy and energy relations |
| Energy strategy |
Deepening pragmatic energy cooperation with Russia |
Diversification: decreasing dependency on Russia, strengthening alternative cooperations |
| Tactic |
Supporting and advocating the NS2 pipeline project |
Halting the certification of the NS2 project, developing LNG infrastructure, finding new gas recourses, imposing sanctions against Russia, including the energy sector |
| 🇷🇺 Russia |
| Aim |
Preserving the gas status quo with EU countries and exerting influence over Ukraine |
Diversify gas markets and keep up the possibility of mending the relationship with Europe and widening its sphere of influence over post-soviet states |
| Energy strategic |
Increasing/keeping energy cooperation in the EU with new alternative pipeline projects, reducing/blocking the alternative gas exports in Europe (especially LNG) and Ukraine's transit role |
Limiting/blocking energy cooperation in the EU using energy as a tool for intimidation against Ukraine's western supporters and turning towards new markets outside Europe |
| Tactic |
Using the NS2 project and its narrative |
Developing new pipeline projects outside Europe, declaring that abandoning Russian supplies is more harmful to Europe than to Russia, potentially repairing the damaged Nord Stream pipelines to keep up the possibility of mending the relationship with Europe |
| 🇺🇸 United States |
| Aim |
Preventing a unified Eurasia's potential rise |
Follow previous goals |
| Energy strategy |
Cooperating with Europe in the gas sector, preventing it from building close ties with Russia, protecting the interests and transit position of Ukraine against Russia |
Following previous strategies, utilising the higher price environment to boost LNG sales in Europe |
| Tactic |
Trying to stop the NS2 project with economic measures, implementing regulatory changes to make their LNG exports more competitive, supporting European LNG initiatives |
Imposing sanctions against Russia, including the energy sector, boosting domestic energy production to prepare for catering to European markets trying to detach from Russian supplies |
| 🇵🇱 Closer alliance with the US in the EU |
| Aim |
Trying to prevent Russia from its aggressive geopolitical pursuits |
Follow previous goals |
| Energy strategy |
Orienting towards the US, trying to detach from the Russian gas supply system |
Strengthening energy cooperation in the region and replacing Russian supplies |
| Tactic |
Opposing/using administrative barriers to block the NS2 project, initiating alternatives |
Realising LNG and pipeline projects (Baltic pipe) |
| 🇺🇦 Ukraine |
| Aim |
Orienting towards the West to compensate for its vulnerability to the escalating Russian geopolitical pressure |
Preserving sovereignty, cooperating with the West |
| Energy strategy |
Preserving as much as possible from its advantageous transit role in the European gas market |
Cooperating with the West, even though this might interfere with its interests regarding its transit role |
| Tactic |
Opposing the Nord Stream 2 pipeline |
Lobbying for an EU-level, a total boycott of Russian energy supplies |